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2023
2022
- December 2022
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- October 2022
- August 2022
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- May 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
2021
2020
2019
Coming Soon
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Classifications |
Do you need to manage and organize items into groups in your project? A new feature, soon to be available in Harmoni, helps you build trademarks, manufacturer nets, flavor groups, time series groups, or any number of classification groupings required in your project.
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Creator Explorer |
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Analysis: Include all sources |
Harmoni calculates percentages for variables based on the data source they are in, but sometimes a variable may not be included across all data sources. Harmoni will soon be able to include ALL sources when calculating a percentage. |
Creator Explorer |
November 2024
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Projects: Edit Mode |
When you are creating new items, you need to be in edit mode. For Project Owners, there is no change; you still need to click the edit pen to make changes to the project tree. For Creators (non-owners) and Explorers, you simply need to click the design menu to access the editing tools and create new items. When you do not require the design menu, ensure you click the search menu tab to allow for faster analysis processing. Learn more about Edit Mode.
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Creator Explorer |
February 2024
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Projects: Constructions - Verbatims |
In Harmoni, verbatims are used to analyze open-ended text. It's now possible to create a copy and make adjustments, for example adding a base. Learn more about constructing verbatims.
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Creator Explorer |
December 2023
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Projects: Linked Axis Date Flag |
In Harmoni, a measure is a continuous variable, and you can transform this measure into a discrete variable, known as a Linked Axis. With the latest update, you can designate a Linked Axis as a date variable. This enables you to load continuous date variables into Harmoni, convert them to a Linked Axis, and leverage the advantages of the date flag feature.
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Creator Explorer |
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Projects: Publish |
When a Project owner clicks the publish button, the project is published, and all Explorer/Creator user constructions are updated.
The purpose of splitting the publishing process into two phases is to allow access to the project sooner. |
Creator Explorer |
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Projects: Metadata |
Metadata is where you can manage project labels using bulk relabel and you can load classification spreadsheets. The metadata area now displays the project name so you can be sure you are accessing the right project. |
Creator |
October 2023
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Visualize: Width Graphs |
Width graphs can now been displayed as funnel graphs with conversion rates automatically flowing from top to bottom.
You can also export width graphs to PowerPoint. In the Visualize menu, you'll see the icon has shifted to the exportable section.
Learn more about width graphs here.
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Creator Explorer |
March 2023
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Sharing Constructions |
Work with other Harmoni users in your team to share and edit constructions. This feature means that that users can review and finalize definitions together. Ownership is then transferred to the Project Owner, ready to publish to the wider Harmoni community. |
Creator Explorer |
2022
December 2022
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Bulk Relabel |
Bulk relabel has moved! When designing a project, Creators can use Harmoni’s Bulk Relabel feature to help make the relabeling process much more efficient. Instead of using the import button, you’ll now see an option labeled metadata in the bottom left corner of the action pane. The feature itself has not changed, just the way you access it. |
Creator |
November 2022
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Global Filter Exception Reports |
When global filter spreadsheets are complex and contain many items, it can be difficult to keep track of everything. Let Harmoni check your global filter spreadsheet using the Global Filter Exception Report. Harmoni identifies any items that are missing based on the exceptions and global filter categories entered in the spreadsheet. |
Creator |
October 2022
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Rounding in Harmoni |
School Rounding (rounding away from zero) is now an option you can choose in Harmoni. Users will be familiar with this type of rounding from Excel. The default setting for each Harmoni site is Bankers Rounding (rounding to the nearest even). |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Architecture: Company Navigation |
When you log into Harmoni, if you have access to more than one Company, you will notice the burger menu has gone and you can see company tiles instead.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
August 2022
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Stories: Exporting Stories with Global Filters |
If you have an active global filter in your project you can save a story and export the results to PPT or XLS for all available global filters. If you have 10 markets in your global filter, export 10 versions of the same story in one go. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Analysis: |
If you need to display a ratio instead of a percentage, or the percentage number without the percentage symbol in a table or a graph, use the display options available under the percentage icon in the modify menu. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Projects: Bulk Relabel of
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While you can change labels directly in your Harmoni project either one by one or with search and replace, it can be more efficient to use bulk relabel. Export the project tree labels, make the changes, and import the new labels back into Harmoni. |
Project Owner |
July 2022
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Projects: Preview Mode
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Previously, the preview mode only let other users view unpublished projects. Project Owners can now use the preview mode to look at the published project after making changes to it. Project Owners can now give access to the unpublished project using the data preview access group (previously only available through a personalization key). Users included in this group can see the preview icon and toggle between published/unpublished data. |
Project Owner |
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Projects: Data Sources - Dimensions Data |
Load .mdd and .ddf Dimensions files into Harmoni. Harmoni will automatically convert Dimensions variable types into Harmoni variable types. |
Creator |
June 2022
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Projects: Project Design -
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Automatically apply multiple element bases from one variable to another with auto base. Apply auto base on a header, an axis, a grid attribute or grid header. |
Creator |
May 2022
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Visualize: Gauge
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Single number displays are an excellent way to call out a single value. In Harmoni, two simple ways to visualize a single number are with text or with a gauge. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
March 2022
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Visualize: Donuts,
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Donut and Semi Donut Graphs Revitalize your presentation of proportional graphs with donut and semi donut graphs. Learn morePie Graphs (Updated) Labels feature inside the pie slices, increasing the size of pie graphs. Share percentages are presented on the graph with table percentages available to add. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
February 2022
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Projects: Constructions
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Auto Sync When building new items or applying bases in Harmoni, use auto sync to save the changes as you work, and then apply all changes once the work is complete. Applying changes at the end, letting Harmoni process while you focus on something else, is a big time-saver when you are working on large projects. |
Project Owner Creator |
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Projects: Analysis Base Options |
Total Responses Percentages based on Total Responses are available in Harmoni. Selecting a standard axis displays the Ʃ% and Ʃ calculation types in the modify menu. These enable the Total Responses results. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
January 2022
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Constructions - Weights and Aggregation Types (Multi-level Projects) |
Weights in multi-level projects In a multi-level project, each level may have a different default weight.
Aggregation types in multi-level projects Change the way measures or weights are aggregated in multi-level data. Use Sum, average, minimum, or maximum to calculate the data.
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Creator Explorer |
2021
December 2021
| Feature | Description | Role |
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User Interface: Enhanced UI & Navigation |
Default Tile Display Filter You can now personalize the default view setting when using the tile display filter. The default, Owned by me, can be changed to Favorites, Shared with me, or All within each entity when you first load the page.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
November 2021
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Projection Item Validation |
Harmoni automatically checks projection items and will give a warning if it identifies any issues with the definitions.
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Creator |
October 2021
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Projects: New Automation for Combined/Net Axes |
Combined axes now update dynamically! With this enhancement, the combined axes synchronize with the original axes.
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Creator |
September 2021
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Project Analysis Defaults |
While analysis personalization keys can be applied at the company, site, or user level. Project owners can now customize the default analysis settings at the project level.
The settings defined by owners at a project level will apply when others create an analysis using the project and data.
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Creator |
August 2021
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Stories: Open Project Tree |
Interactive story views allow accessing the project tree if you want to analyze further or adjust your story.
The new Open Project Tree icon allows opening and closing the project tree.
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Creator Explorer |
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Dashboards: Display media in Dashboards
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To enhance the visualization experience, you can now associate images or videos with the data in Harmoni Dashboards. |
Creator |
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Stories and PowerPoint Exports: Chart label size
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For Story previews and PowerPoint exports, y ou can now overwrite Harmoni's default label size by using personalization keys when previewing story views and when exporting to PowerPoint. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Projects: Direct connection to SurveyMonkey
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A data source is the starting point for all you do in Harmoni. A source is a collection of data either in an imported file or a connected data store. Direct connections allow updated data to flow into Harmoni in real-time. Harmoni supports different direct connections, including SurveyMonkey.
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Creator |
July 2021
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Visualize: Trendline |
Trendline offers a quick way to add/view the 'trend' of the overall results to your time analyses. After creating an analysis using a line graph, you can visualize the trend by selecting the trend option located in the drop-down menu.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Stories: Quick Add |
When there is an active story, clicking the plus ‘+’ will immediately add the current view to the story without opening the story preview curtain. This outcome will be indicated with a small animation and a green tick (briefly) when completed. This is referred to as quick add. When selecting to add to an existing story, after choosing the story tile, the same will happen, e.g., no curtain opening and a simple indicator to show the success.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Analysis Statistical Testing: Margin of Error (MoE)
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Harmoni can calculate the margin of error when looking at and interpreting the data in your analysis. The option to calculate the margin of error (MoE) is available under tests in the modify menu. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Analysis Statistical Testing: Multiple reference significant differences (M-SIG)
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In Harmoni, you can calculate statistical significant differences against a single reference group using SIG, or you can perform multiple reference significance testing using M-SIG. Multiple reference significant differences (M-SIG) are represented using the 26 letters in the English alphabet. Options for significance testing (SIG and M-SIG) are available under tests in the modify menu. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
June 2021
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Data Design: Constructions from Constructions |
Constructions from Constructions now supported! In Harmoni, you can create new items or customized constructions to suit your analysis and reporting requirements. New variables can be created using items that already exist in the project, constructed items, or with user-entered values. |
Creator Explorer |
May 2021
| Feature | Description | Role |
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User Interface: Enhanced UI & Navigation |
Changes to the Global Menu bar and Entities make the platform more intuitive to navigate. It's also much easier to search, sort, and filter your projects, stories, and dashboards. A new 'Favorites' feature keeps important items easily accessible. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Collaboration and Sharing: New permission groups |
New granular controls over who views and interacts with the entities that you own. It is simple to share projects and stories you have created with other users and collaborate with team members. |
Creator Explorer |
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Stories: Enhanced storytelling |
Story reporting capabilities are now more powerful and immersive. Present 'live' insights in dynamic ways directly from Harmoni that drive better organizational decisions and prove value to stakeholders. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
March 2021
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Analysis: Unweighted Totals |
Totals by default display weighted counts. There is a new personalization key that allows for Unweighted counts to be set as a default.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Analysis: Include/Exclude hidden items for statistical testing. |
When a time-based axis is a part of your analysis hidden items are included in the reference set. You may choose to exclude by unticking the option "Include Hidden Items" from the REF dropbox. This is a useful option when for example, there are missing periods in your survey, but you still want to compare vs. the most recent period.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
2020
December 2020
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Smart Analysis: Discover Descriptor Manager |
Discover will profile a target group against a set of defined descriptors. You can now create different sets of descriptors and manage them through the descriptor manager. Descriptor groups created by the Project Owner are available to all published users after the project is published. Creators and Explorer can create their own descriptor groups.
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Creator Explorer
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October 2020
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Projects: Project rollback |
There may be occasions where the Project Owner needs to go back to the previous version of a project. Project rollback allows the project owner to go back to the latest published version.
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Creator |
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Analysis: Analysis default settings - Differences (DIFF) |
Updated analysis default settings when adding DIFF calculation type in your analysis. In an analysis with a single axis, differences are added as a new row. In an analysis with a cross-tab or a grid, differences are added as a new column. |
Creator Explorer |
September 2020
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Data Sources: System and pipe variables for Decipher |
There are two new options to include system and pipe variables when connecting to a Decipher source. If you wish to include new variable types into an existing project you can do so by selecting the edit option on the sources browse area. |
Creator |
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Data Design: Measure Groups |
Measure groups is another construction type available in Harmoni. Measure groups combine a group of measures that are logically linked together. |
Creator Explorer |
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Data Design: Multi-Language
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The multi-language functionality in Harmoni allows displaying project items in different languages during your session. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
August 2020
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Analysis: Analysis default settings |
We have rolled out changes in the analysis default settings. These changes are being made to allow greater flexibility for new functionality being developed.
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Creator Explorer |
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Analysis: Rank by last time period |
When you have a time axis in your analysis, you can default the ranking to be based on the latest time period available in your project.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
| Analysis: Population Projection |
Population Projection allows you to view analysis results as population figures and see the actual size of the market. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
July 2020
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Analysis: Reorder measures |
You can reorder an individual measure or a selection of measures in between other axes. When selecting the measure to move, Harmoni creates a new measure group with the selected measure(s) and reorders as selected.
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Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Project: Export label structure |
The export design section gives you a few options to export the designed project out of Harmoni. There are now two new options available to export the labels of a project: Label Structure and Label Structure (inc. elements). |
Creator |
June 2020
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Analysis: Guardrails on selectors now available for Explorers |
Guardrails limit the selection for a shared, saved analysis. Guardrails are particularly useful to those creating reporting deliveries, so that selection options are limited to those applicable or essential to their audience. |
Creator Explorer |
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Project: Label Harmonization within Grids |
Label harmonization can now happen within a grid. Previously, you had to harmonize axes and elements before adding them to a grid. |
Creator Explorer |
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Dashboards: Ability to wrap labels in a chart |
The feature allows you to define the number of lines on X-axis labels before truncating when using the Chart Axes & Labels options to force the width to a certain size. |
Creator |
Watch Out May 2020
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Platform: PPT Export
28-05-2020 |
Google seems to have rolled out an update to Chrome that may conflict with PPT download. If you are having issues, please look for this icon in your URL bar and click 'accept' to clear the path for the download to begin.
*You can right-click on the image to open
in a new tab |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
May 2020
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Project: Delete Header |
You can now delete a header you have created as long as it doesn't have any other variables sitting under it (i.e. children). |
Creator Explorer |
April 2020
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Project: Identify removed items and broken constructions after remove/overwrite source |
Harmoni now displays a warning when there are original project items that are no longer present in any of the sources when overwriting or removing a source and will then be removed from the project completely. When loading the project, Harmoni automatically identifies "broken" constructions, as a result of a data source being removed or overwritten. Invalid constructions are shown in red in the project tree. |
Creator |
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Smart Analysis: Fair Share |
Fair Share analysis is a technique for evaluating the performance of brands against a set of attributes. |
Creator
Explorer Viewer |
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Platform: Export to Excel Tab names display analysis header name |
When exporting a story or a story view to excel, the tab names in excel now automatically display the header name of the analysis. |
Creator
Explorer Viewer |
2019
December 2019
| Feature | Description | Role |
| Smart Analysis: Discover |
Harmoni Discover is a tool to profile a target group against a set of descriptor variables. It will show you which of these descriptors best describe your group and compare these with other groups. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
November 2019
| Feature | Description | Role |
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Data Design: Create a new axis from a measure |
When creating projects in Harmoni, some of the items in your project tree display as measures. However, for analysis purposes, you may need this data to be presented as a standard axis. |
Creator Explorer |
| Analysis: Reordering of columns and rows |
This feature allows you to shift selected columns and/or rows in an analysis table view. |
Creator
Explorer Viewer |
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Analysis: Show sample size on graphs |
Allows displaying the sample size next to chart axis labels or legend item labels based on the direction/dimension of the percentage base. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Dashboards: Ability to 'pre-apply' a filter before loading a dashboard. |
This feature allows for a dashboard to be built from a very generic perspective and then for its filter(s) to be controlled at the time of loading based on a supplied suffix to the URL/Link. |
Creator |
October 2019
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Analysis: Drag and drop to titles disabled. |
The ability to drag and drop items from the project tree to the table title is now disabled. |
Creator Explorer |
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Dashboards: Link directly to a Harmoni project via URL or dashboard link |
Allow for a Project to be linked to via Dashboard or direct URL share |
Creator Explorer |
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Analysis: Select analysis percentages direction (based on) via label/select click event. |
This new capability allows you to interact directly with the label that indicates the current direction (what the %'s are based on) and allow you to select another from the available list. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Platform: Direct export of analysis or dashboard views to PPT or Excel |
Ability to export onscreen view directly to Excel and/or Powerpoint. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Data Design: Ability to edit a combined construction by allowing the removal of items in its definition. |
Ability to edit a combined construction by using the standard expression editor pane to remove items from the definition. |
Creator Explorer |
September 2019
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Platform: Custom significance testing confidence level defaults. |
Harmoni applies an automatic confidence level of 95%. While you can override this via the modify menu, this development allows for the 95% default to be changed at a site level. |
Contact |
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Analysis: Extend the drag and drop zones to Verbatim and Single number displays. |
Consistent and familiar drag n drop zones across all charts, visualizations, and tables. |
Creator Explorer |
| Pinned Filters: Consistency across analysis, stories, and dashboards. |
Allows to set and pin a filter(s) that remains sticky through your session. Ability to change an entire story filter with one click, save-as, and export. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |
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Charts: Ability to force all values on. |
Ability to force ‘all values on’ to override the data label optimization. |
Creator Explorer Viewer |